Crime and the criminal justice system -- No crime without an Act -- Criminal vs. civil sanctions: a punishment -- Requirement of notice or awareness of potential criminal liability -- The Problem of responsibility: what conditions should exclude liability? -- The Decision to make conduct criminal -- Determining seriousness: the significance of the state of mind in homicide -- Sentencing: the responsibility for determining penal sanctions -- Causation: the relationship between the defendant's conduct and the prohibited result -- Justification and excuse -- inchoate crimes: solictatin and attempt -- Group crimes: complicity and conspiracy -- Due process; application of federal standards to state criminal procedure -- The Exclusionary rule -- Stops and arrests -- Search and seizure -- Electronic surveillance, under-cover investigation and entrapment -- Interrogation -- Line-ups and other identification procedures -- Order to appear -- Counsel for the accused -- Preliminary proceedings -- Bail and pretrial release -- Prosecution: charging and negotiating -- Disclosure and discovery -- Speedy trial -- Trial by jury -- Pre-trial publicity -- Double jeopardy -- The Correctional process

1. Criminal law -- United States -- Cases
2. Criminal procedure -- United States -- Cases